Conn. Democrats’ veto-proof majority and the 2025 budget session [Video]

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s General Assembly will be back at the Capitol Wednesday with a long to-do list for a longer session. They have until midnight on June 4 to adjourn with a new two-year state budget on the governor’s desk. 

While lawmakers have already started drafting many of their major proposals, Gov. Ned Lamont will highlight several specific priorities in his State of the State address on Wednesday: utility bills, housing and zoning code reforms, artificial intelligence, childcare, the evolution of election laws and more. 

At the top of everyone’s list, though, is passing a new biennial budget, the state’s first without temporary pandemic-era federal funds (American Rescue Plan Act installments). 

Further complicating the task is a series of legal constraints on Connecticut’s spending and rare surplus, collectively known as the “fiscal guardrails.”

What are the fiscal guardrails?

Despite the state’s growing revenue, lawmakers have been …